Noble Quotes

Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward.

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

No matter how noble and special people want to make the playoffs out to be... it's a crapshoot.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.

Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern.

Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.

But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.

A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.

The noble person uses things; the lesser man is used by things.

This is the reason why the doctrine of plurality of wives was revealed, that the noble spirits who are waiting for tabernacles might be brought forth

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.

I tell my students, it's got to be warm, dry, and noble.

If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable.

A noble person is mindful and thankful for the favors he receives from others.

It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.

Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.

Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.

Those who recognize the existence of suffering, its cause, its remedy, and its cessation, have fathomed the four noble truths. They will walk in the right path.

Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep the gears of society pointlessly turning.

Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.

Goodness is a perpetual quantity, all penetrating, all searching, impartial, noble, a comfort in distress, a refuge to the weak, a tower and a defense to all who wish to be right and to do right.

Certainly it is one of our sweetest experiences that when we are touched by some noble affection or pure joy, we remember the dead most tenderly, and feel more powerfully drawn to them.

Why can't a woman be more like a man? Men are so honest, so thoroughly square; Eternally noble, historically fair; Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat. Why can't a woman be like that?

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for.

Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

Education is such a noble profession, its a wonderful way to serve.

Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.

Throughout history, even the harshest and most shameful measures are regularly accompanied by professions of noble intent - and rhetoric about bestowing freedom and independence.

I was in the category of people who thought that his [Bernie Sanders ]campaign was worthy, even noble and it would push Hillary [Clinton] to the left.

An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.

No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.

Promise to be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit trouble to press on you.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created.

Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?

Let us therefore rely on the goodness of the cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble actions.

Noble friends and companions are the whole of the holy life.

Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character.

He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty.

Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.

In the early 2000s, I was introduced to the noble art of kickboxing, it thrilled me, and I loved it. I loved the honour and the discipline, and I also loved the punching.

Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

Those who do the least themselves are always the severest critics upon the noble achievements of others.

Let us live so we do not regret years of inertia and ignorance, so when we die we can say all of our energy was dedicated to the noble liberation of the human mind and spirit, beginning with my own.

If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.